Wooo!
JRA_Rendar
Join Date: 2003-06-06 Member: 17042Members
Join Date: 2003-06-06 Member: 17042Members
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And I've heard rumors of some significant differences in the "2.0za experimental" build. I doubt there would be radical gameplay changes made this close to release, so if the rumors have any merit it probably has more to do with nifty features. Maybe an improved marine minimap, complete with overhead MT blips? Your guess is as good as mine, but if any surprises were meant then it would explain why the beta forum was cloaked.
easteregg=skulks are replaced with scorpions that er... hovar w/o flapping. the chance means the percent chance per game of this happening, *0.1 (=5=5/1000 chance of easter egg happening).
eh... this'll probably get deleted as well.. after all it is an easter egg.
Just thought I might satisfy your curiosity <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->.
Nope, that's apparently exactly what it is. According to the only vet that actually answered when I asked about the beta forum, "radical" is exactly the word Flayra used; he's trying out different ideas while it's still possible, and doesn't want people to flip out over a 180 degree change that might not make it to release anyway.
Keep in mind boys and girls, we thought the <i>exact</i> same thing before 1.0 was released. By July we all thought we knew all there was to know about Natural Selection.
Then, a few mere weeks before release, someone slipped up in IRC and mentioned some unheard of thing called "babblers".
We were puzzled.
"What's a Babbler?" we asked
"Uh, it's what the PTs have been calling batty recently. Yea. That's it" was that IRC denzien's reply.
We were satisfied, until someone else slipped up in the forums, and the cat was out of the bag. The gorge had this sweet "babbler" ability, where skulks came out of his mouth to devour, leap, and xenocide his foes. A tight-lidded secret that might have been kept all te way up to release (or NDA lift).
Bilebomb was much the same, but we just were never told it's function, we knew it existed. I'm pretty sure none of us thought it was a 200lb acid-filled ziplock bag (as it was originally intended for the lightweight batty... er... Lerk).
<i>um...</i><b>Viva el Bob!</b>
Really? What did it do? (in 1.0x days)
"Now we donce!!" (and yes it is an o, not an a)
"We need better players."
"This place is a mess."
"I see dead people"
"This is my hive. There are many like it, but this one is mine"
I believe that's the complete list. They're files in your ns directory under sounds/ambience, i believe. I've only heard the first 3 actually in game. The last 2 I've never heard short of actually playing the files.
I knew that.
<thanks for ruining my fun <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->>
It's actually under sound/hud, by the way. I've never heard any of those except for the Donce one and "this place is a mess". A number of the hive sounds in there aren't in the game; I'm curious why the hive complete ones aren't being used.
And I've only ever heard "Now we donce!!" and "This place is a mess."
Never heard any of the otherse :-(
Not sure about the others.
"This is my hive, there are many like it, but this one is mine" Damn hard to get this one, I've never actually heard it. If my sources are corrent however it occurs when a gorge kills a marine in a hive room and then immediatly builds the hive. Sort of like the gorge claiming the hive.
"I see dead people" can trigger when you're waiting to spawn back in I believe. I don't know what the governing variable is.